catapult magazine

Items tagged expectations

• Slaying the monsters

  How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

• "For they were afraid"

  Reflections on Mark 16.1-8, which recounts the visit of the women to Jesus' tomb.

• On being a loser at 30

  An older self and a younger self in dialogue about (dis)contentment.

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

• (Partly) rebelling against rebellion

  Reflections of a pastor's kid on struggling against expectations.

• The spectacular death of Vic Chesnutt

  A eulogy for a musician, by a musician.

• This is what we are about

  What I learned from spending a week with student friends at Huss School.

• My mom’s first date

  A daughter's perspective on her young widowed mother's re-entry into the dating scene.

• When every day is Saturday

  No more teachers, no more books, no more...peace and quiet? Regular routines? Freedom?

• An M&M and a prayer

  A review of the novel The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin.

• Hello, Jesus!

  Where has Jesus walked in the years since the ascension?

• Dark bird ascending

  A review of the film Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as a professional ballerina.

• Yielding

  Following an unconventional path to parenthood.

• Ten things I didn’t expect in 2011

  A retrospective of surprising life changes.

• Glimpses of the good life

  Reflecting on formational sights along the twenty-something leg of life’s journey.

• An American question

  Identifying cultural differences for expectations of the good life.

• The imperfect life

  On learning to open the windows again.

• Super Size my sanctification, please

  Sometimes, life is like a shamrock shake.

• Connoisseurship and the art of moving

  What questions should we be asking of a potential new place ... and perhaps of ourselves?